Wow, i´m so sorry to hear about Lesley and the baby. That´s so hard. Send her my love for me. As far as the package, mom, I did receive a notice in the mail saying my package is here in Spain. But they needed my info and some other things to be able to go get it. Well... the office Elders dont know where that paper went. So i´m praying that we can find it before the package gets sent back to the states. Packages usually get stuck like that if it´s a big package or if they think it´s worth a lot.
So in our mission, it´s never been the norm to go and knock doors. I´ve probably knocked like 50-75 doors in my whole mission. It´s just something we´ve never done. Well, President Pace, being a man called of God and set apart to receive revelation for the missionary work here, has asked the mission to focus more on knocking doors. Contacting people in the street or in the metro is great. I´ve done that my whole mission. But it´s a ton harder contacting someone, gaining their trust in the contact, getting their info, setting up a visit and then finding them there at the visit later on (if they give you the right info). On the other hand, if you find a family knocking doors, you already know where they live and it´s a whole lot easier to get in if they accept. So we´ve been trying to do that in our area...On saturday, we saw a miracle from knocking doors.. well actually ringing the timbres. We stopped at a random building and we started ringing from the top of the intercom where all of the buttons are and the first couple of pisos didn´t want anything. We thought about leaving and trying a different building but then thought, "No, let´s finish this building." We kept ringing until we had been rejected by every piso in the building. So, we left and went on our way looking for another building to ring when an OLD, OLD Spaniard man walked past us going about 0.1 mph. He was wearing a hat that said "Viva Stalin" (or in english, long live Stalin). Elder Cerqueira and I laughed to each other and after about a minute of trying to decide if we should go back and talk to him, we decided to go back (we were really hoping to just be able to get a picture with the hat). As we walked back to him and started to talk, he gave us a weird look and then tried to speed up his walk and get away from us. We didn´t want to give the man a heart attack so we let him go. Just then, another younger, latino man walked past us and said hello as we said hello to him. We didn´t think much about him and started on our way again. Then, the man came back around the corner and said, "Elders! Want to come to my house and drink a Coca Cola?" Never in my whole mission had something like that happened to me. But of course we said yes and we went with him to his piso. His name is René from Paraguay and was baptized there about 12 years ago when he was 22. Him and his girlfriend want us to come back and keep teaching them. It just showed to Elder Cerqueira and I that as we do our part to follow the counsel of our leaders that the Lord blesses us, in His own time, and His own way.
I love the work of the gathering of Israel. I´ve learned so much on my mission and i´m still learning every day. My life will forever be dedicated to the Lord and the building of His kingdom. Love you all. Happy thanksgiving!! Nyall, enjoy some turducken.
Elder Reeves
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